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First published in 1988 and now reissued in paperback, a contemporary novel about religion, from the author of MIDNIGHT'S CHILDREN.Two Indian actors fall to Earth after their aeroplane is blown-up by terrorists, and they become involved in the battle between Good and Evil, as a great prophet wrestles with his faith and duty to God.
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 16,10 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928876-3
EAN 9780099288763
There have been many ambitious and important books on the problem of c onsciousness in the past few years. None has quite the philosophical sophistication and neurophysiological knowledge of this one. One of the world's leading experts on the neurophysiology of emotion, professor Damasio shows how our consciousness developed out of the development of emotion; ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928282-2
EAN 9780099282822
SOLDIER'S PAY was Faulkner's first novel. In the Summer of 1925, worki ng in New Orleans, Faulkner met Sherwood Anderson, who encouraged him to write a novel. Unlike his later books, this post-war story of a wo unded, helpless and dying officer returning home to his father and his fickle sweetheart is set in Georgia, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 384 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928315-7
EAN 9780099283157
A landmark in American fiction, Light in August explores Faulkner's central theme: the nature of evil. Joe Christmas - a man doomed, deracinated and alone - wanders the Deep South in search of an identity, and a place in society. After killing his perverted God-fearing lover, it becomes inevitable that he is pursued by a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 7,66 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928504-5
EAN 9780099285045
Hemingway's memories of his life as an unknown writer living in Paris in the twenties are deeply personal, warmly affectionate and full of wit. Looking back not only at his own much younger self, but also at the other writers who shared Paris with him - James Joyce, Wyndham Lewis, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald - ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-7126-6544-5
EAN 9780712665445
The Roots of Romanticism is the long-awaited text of Isaiah Berlin's most celebrated set of lectures, the Mellon Lectures, delivered in Washington in 1965 and heard since by a much wider audience on BBC radio. For Berli, the Romantics set in train a vast, unparalleled revolution in humanity's view of itself. They destroyed the traditional ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 480 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928293-8
EAN 9780099282938
This is Richard Wright's stark and vehement novel about a young black man who is hardened by life in the slums and whose every effort to fre e himself proves hopeless. Unwittingly involved in a wealthy woman's d eath, he is hunted relentlessly, baited by prejudiced officials, charg ed with murder and driven to acknowledge ...
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Call If You Need Me
The uncollected fiction and prose
- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-1-86046-759-2
EAN 9781860467592
When he died in August 1988, Raymond Carver had just published what were thought to be his last stories in the collection entitled Elephant and his own collection of stories, Where I'm Calling from. Five previously unpublished stories have recently been discovered, and this new volume brings together all of his uncollected fiction, including a ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 12,00 €
ISBN 9780099289500
EAN 9780099289500
Maugham spent the winter months of 1919-20 travelling 1500 miles up the Yangtze river. Always more interested in people than places he gave full rein to a sensitive and philosophical nature: ON A CHINESE SCREEN is the refined accumulation of the countless scraps of paper on which he had taken notes. A series of acute ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928414-7
EAN 9780099284147
In a prison in Occupied France during the Second World War, the order is given that every tenth inmate is to be executed. Louis Chavel, a rich lawyer, draws the short straw and barters everything he owns to exchange places with another man and survive. Destitute but free, Chavel later returns to the house that ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,70 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944857-0
EAN 9780099448570
Growing up in the suburbs in post-war Japan, it seemed to Hajime that everyone but him had brothers and sisters. His sole companion was Shimamoto, also an only child. Together they spent long afternoons listening to her father's record collection. But when his family moved away, the two lost touch. Now Hajime is in his ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928284-6
EAN 9780099282846
FAR EASTERN TALES is a collection of short stories which have never before appeared together. They are all born of his experience in Malaya, Singapore and other outposts of the former British Empire. Whether portraying a ship-borne flight from a lover's curse, murder in the jungle or the remembered East of a repatriate's suburban home, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 12,30 €
ISBN 978-0-09-944877-8
EAN 9780099448778
His life was like his recurring nightmare: a train to nowhere. But an ordinary life has a way of taking an extraordinary turn. Add a girl whose ears are so exquisite that, when uncovered, they improve sex a thousand-fold, a runaway friend, a right-wing politico, an ovine-obsessed professor and a manic-depressive in a sheep outfit, ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 337 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-923862-1
EAN 9780099238621
Pamela Vale, aged 34, had died in the house fire. She had been beautiful, and had been heavily insured, and her husband showed little grief. Her children seemed terrified. Insurance investigator Jack Wade is sure he knows what happened. All he has to do is to gather the evidence.
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928952-4
EAN 9780099289524
After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928786-5
EAN 9780099287865
Unruly, ungovernable, unpredictable, unexpected, funny, sexy and completely recognisable these are the women that Alice Munro exposes in this brilliant new collection that confirms her genius for entering the lives of ordinary people and capturing the passions and contradictions that lie just below the surface. The Love of a Good Woman is not as pure ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928486-4
EAN 9780099284864
Written during World War II, this novel takes as its theme the Zen Buddhist phrase describing the narrow, painful path to enlightenment. The book describes an over-populated, materialistic society, in which people increasingly turn inwards to the spiritual life in their search for freedom.
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 208 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-0-09-928277-8
EAN 9780099282778
When CAKES AND ALE was first published in 1930, it roused a storm of controversy, since many people imagined they saw in its pages recognisable portraits of literary figures now no more. The tumult and the shouting soon died down, leaving the story to take its place as one of the finest of Maugham's novels. ...
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- Vintage UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 240 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-0-09-927377-6
EAN 9780099273776
Alice Munro's territory is the farms and semi-rural towns of south- western Ontario. Described by one of her peers as going around with a 'delicate, rueful smile and a wicked pen', she says of herself: 'I guess that maybe as a writer I'm kind of an anachronism...because I write about places where your roots are ...
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